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 314 DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE being thus made square-lieaded, have wooden labels put over them; and a modern parapet of lath and plaster has been added -"^ : the lights below the transoms have never had glass fixed in them, but must have been closed with casements or shutters. This hall is now called the chapel, which it clearly was not. It is very remarkable that under one of the windows of this hall is a low side | fv^ window, the first I I that has been no- g^p ticed in domestic '- -M work : this is near- ly perfect on the inside, and has good Decorated tracery ; the hooks for hanging the shutter also re- main, but on the outside it is plas- tered over. At the north end of the - hall is the passage called the Screens, Low side Window with a doorway at each end according to the usual arrange- ment still continued in use in our College halls : the framing of this passage is original, and the bays of the roof are made to ao-ree with this arrano-ement. The two wings of this house have been more or less altered, one more than the other, being now used as the dwelling house; the south wing is more perfect, and in this is the solar, which was probably about 35 feet by 17 and the original open timber roof, which still extends the whole length of this Vv^ng, though part of it has been ceiled, and parted off into different rooms. This solar is lighted by two lofty Decorated windows of two lights with transoms, the one on the north side square-headed, that on the east pointed. In the room on the ground-floor there are remains of a fire-place ; there are the corbels of one in the -upper room, through the back of which at present an entrance is made by a ladder from the hall ; one of these corbels rises from a ball-flower, the other from a twisted stem ; the chimney belonging to the lower fire-place still re- ° These windows have beta restored in the woodcut annexed.